Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears
While we all 'sup sorrow with the poor
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears
O, hard times come again no more
There's a song, sigh of the weary
Hard times, hard times come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
O hard times come again no more
While we seek mirth and beauty, and music light and gay
They're frail forms fainting at the door
Though the voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
O, hard times come again no more
There's a song, sigh of the weary
Hard times, hard times come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
O hard times come again no more
There's a song, sigh of the weary
Hard times, hard times come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door
O hard times come again no more
O hard times come again no more